Biden as James Buchanan, Trump as Andrew Jackson
It is a matter of discipline with me to avoid listening to political speeches. They are hardly edifying and the current trend...
We need reminded about shopping local
The cutline on last Monday’s Page 1 News-Banner is what caught my eye right away.
“Cutline” is a bit...
We’ve done this before, but there is new stuff to talk about
The old saying goes that there are only two things in life that are certain: death and taxes. I would add that...
Letter to the Editor: Think before you call
Last weekend while visiting a friend in Bluffton, she was reading the N-B and chuckling — not at the cartoon strip but...
Angelkeep Journals: Change spelled backward is “egnahc”
“They change the night into day: the light is short because of darkness.” Job wrote it at 17:12 because he knew the...
Tax season: Here comes another ‘fun’ time
It’s just not real fun.
You may have noticed the 2023-pay-2024 Property Tax Rates chart was published on the...
Angelkeep Journals: Leap Year, when February has 29
Thirty days hath September, April, June, and November. All the rest have thirty-one, excepting February alone, and that has twenty-eight days clear,...
The things we miss
A few random bits happened in the past week that have me in a nostalgic mood.
This past Friday,...
Congress needs to represent us. But it also needs to act
Back in January, you might have noticed a story from Oklahoma about James Lankford, that state’s senior US senator. Lankford, a Republican,...
Angelkeep Journals: Angelkeep milestones and millstones
An Angelkeep ash tree provided the perfect example to define both a milestone and millstone of this place.
Angelpond...